The German heroes only lost 21 men while the emperor lost 2,000 troops in a clash leading up to the famous battle Get daily headlines and breaking news alerts for FREE by signing up to our newsletter ...

This slim book brings to extraordinary life the firefight at La Haye Sainte farmhouse, the course of which determined Napoleon’s fate There have been times when I have felt my ignorance about Waterloo ...

The 378 men of the 2nd Light Battalion King’s German Infantry made up a tiny fraction of Wellington’s force of 68,000 at Waterloo, and they are often forgotten amid Napoleon’s massive frontal assaults ...

The 378 damp, cold and hungover Germans waking up on the floorboards of a Belgian farmhouse must have looked unlikely heroes. After discovering a hidden wine cellar late the previous night, they ...